Don’t Get It Twisted // Wicked: The Worship Of Wealth (Week 1) // Pastor Michael Todd

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Do today's message Today, I have an assignment to start

a series that I think may go down in history

is one of the most impactful series that I've ever spoken,

because if you get the principles that I'm about to

share with you, it's not just gonna change your life,

It's going to change generations that come after you hear

what I just said to you. This series is worth

you taking notes, wrestling with hard questions, investigating, reading other

books about it, seeing what the Bible says, and hear me.

I want everybody in Transformation Church to be literate in

the Word of God. So I'm telling you, don't take

my word for it, go study it for yourself. Like

I just want to be clear, because some people are

like all right, Paust Mike said, Okay, cool, cool cool,

And I work hard to make sure that what I'm

saying up here, and what any communicator is saying up here,

is backed in the Word of God, so that you

on a Monday on a Tuesday, any day of the week,

can go for yourself and research what God says about it,

because you know what, He can give you a better

revelation than I can. And so today I want to

take us on a journey. Somebody say we're going on

a journey. We're going on a journey to talk about money. Now,

the word of the year at Transformation Church is what

folk say it again? And do you know what? Most

of the time you focused on money, how much you

have or how much you don't have? Who owe you some?

Oh y'all know, y'all, are y'all y'all see that dude

that owe you six dollars from the seventh grade JaMarcus?

I can't stand him? Why he owe me six dollars?

Still what?

And I found that as I was going through the

theme of things that become a distraction to us, I

found that money finances the narrow. What's some other names

for money? Cheese, guap, cheddar bands? Come on, help me?

What do you say bread? Why? I got so many

food analogies? Lettuce, ah, whatever you call your money? Coin

that coin. Most of us, at some point on our

journey with Christ have been distracted by money. Can I

make sure I'm in the right room. How many of

us on our journey with christen first giving honor to God,

who's the head of my life, like you with Christ,

have been distracted at some point in your journey by money. Hands, hands, hands.

We're in the right room today, so I thought it

would be important for us to take the next four weeks.

All I'm asking you to do is lock in for

four weeks so that you get in totality the revelation

that God wants to give to each one of you.

I promise you it was a series like this that

changed my family's future.

It was a series like.

This that allowed me to actually give God my heart

at the level that he couldn't just change my what

was in my hands. He changed my habits. I'll tell

you in a later sermon, how pornography was you eradicated

from my life through my generosity and putting God first.

Because all money is is a tool for God to see.

Watch this where he stands in your life. Hear what

I just said to you. All money does is locate you.

And I can locate every person in this room by

where they put they money. And it's gonna be quiet

in here a couple times and it's okay. I amen

myself thirty two times before I came out here in

the mirror. But the truth of the matter is money

is one of those things that made people act money.

Have you ever known somebody that was real nice until

you mess with they money? I mean, was just right there.

But you're getting business with them where you you cheat

them out of a something, or you didn't do what

you said you was gonna do, and it ruins everything.

Because most people have a watch this intimate attachment to money.

Let me just talk about it. You may not classify

it as that, but why do you feel different when

you have it? When payday comes, you act like you

lost weight, and y'all know what I'm talking about. You

get shoot the night before, you felt busted. That little

but bean comes in your phone, You're like, oh my god,

it's gonna go outside. Just come on. Let's be honest.

Why wouldn't tax season, if you get a refund, y'all

be brand new? What happens when you lose something? A

car gets repossessed. Why did the repo of the car

make you feel inferior and insignificance? It's an intimate. It's

more than just embarrassment. There's some type of intimate attachment

to finances, to money two more. And today I want

us to everybody say focus. I want us to focus

on what God has for us in this world, realm

and culture of wealth Hebrews twelve to one. Until I

told you I'm going to read it all year long.

Therefore it's our scripture of the year. Since we are

surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us

throw off everything, every weight that hinders, especially the sin.

That so easily.

Entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race

marked out for us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus. Somebody

shotted me focus the pioneer and the perfector of our faith,

for the joy that was set before him. He endured

the cross, scorning it same, and now he sat down

at the right hand of the Father by the throne

of God.

Every week.

I'm gonna say this, Fixing your eyes on Jesus gives

you the faith to focus. Most of us have not

asked Jesus what he wants to say about money.

We learned it from people who didn't learn it. When

you think about all.

The places you learned about money, they weren't really in

the places you was probably supposed to learn a man,

I know in school, I had one class about personal

finances one at home, I knew my parents had money,

but there was never a class teaching understanding because everybody

doing the best they can with what they got. And

the truth of the matter is, most churches stay away

from the topic or they manipulate the topic. Okay, let's

talk real about it. They either stay away from it

because I don't want anybody to think we're a part

of the prospiity goes full and we don't want to

do anything. And then you have people who are a

part of the poverty gospel, broke minded, can't help with nothing,

always needs something, not because that's where you started. It's

just you've never been taught out of that. And then

you have people that make one hundred dollar lines for everything.

Today we're reading Psalms one hundred. Everybody that get one

hundred dollars seed in your hand, get one hundred pennies,

get a hundred dollars, get a one hundred quarters, get

a hundred. There's nowhere in the Bible that Jesus ever

took up an offering because of another number being a

part of it. So I just want to expose and

acknowledge that there's been some things that have been done

around money, especially in church, that leave all of us

a little confused. And watch this secret about our money.

Most people, the thing you don't talk to them about

is that money You judge and try to sum up,

but you think somebody has carried a two minus three.

I know how much some shoes cost. I but actually

talking about it, actually asking people like, how do you

do your budget? How do you do this? How do

you honor God in this? How do you invest? How

do you like? Unless you know, you know, But if

you don't know, you'll never know. And today I'm going

to be a living testimony for you. I'm Michael, and

I used to have a poverty mentality over ten years

ago before I became the pastor of this church. I

knew that I was supposed to be able to handle

resources and have wealth. I did not have it. I

was in debt collections up to my I did not

understand credit, I had no investments. I did steal from establishments.

I'll tell them, Oh God, now, well, how real should

I actually be? Today, I don't know what the statue

of limitation is in.

Am I good? Okay? I used to go to discount

stores and change tags to sell tags.

Okay, I cannot, I can't be real.

I'm i'm, I'm gonna tell I'm, I'm gonna tell you

how much poverty I wanted to look like I had

it so much so that I put my freedom in jeopardy.

I just want to I just want to make sure

you know I'm not talking down at you. I'm not

trying to tell you need to do something that that, hopefully,

one day we all get to. When I started this series,

all I had was faith in the principles that God

showed me in his word. And for the past decade

I've worked these principles that I'm about to share with you,

And so today and for the rest of this series,

I'm not sharing with you as one that is hoping

to reach this lane. Because of the faithfulness of God

and my obedience to his word, he has changed my

relationship with money forever. My children's children. I'm not telling

you this so that you can be like, see he's

doing no, no, no, My children's children already have resources. Now,

why are you not hiding that from us because I

want you to have it? I don't, I don't, I

don't want. And this is not This is not because

I'm the pastor of this church I need everybody to

hear me. This is because I have decided that God's

principles actually are the governing factor of my life, and

either they work or they don't, and will never know

if I don't go all in. So ten years ago

I went all in. I said, God, either tithing words

or it doesn't. So every time I get any increase,

I'm going to give you ten percent of it. And God,

in his word, this ain't even my message today, he said,

tests me. See if I won't open up the windows

of heaven and pour you out of blessing, you don't

have room enough to receive. I'm telling you right now,

I am a recipient. I'm getting excited because I didn't

believe it could happen until it happened to me. But

I just wanted to let you know where I started,

so you don't think this is something that I already

had a leg up or a hand up in. I

think it was Prophet Drake that said started from the bottom.

Now we're here. I just want Okay. The reason my

relationship with money was very toxic is because I had

gotten some of the principles that Jesus called important. Watch

this twisted say the word twisted. When we think about twisted,

that word it means that something is tied around something else.

There's something that has now been turned and formed into

something that now takes on a different shape. It's just

a little bit out of sorts. And when I started

to think about the title of this series, except what

has been more twisted in church than money? Nothing? There

are people who will not come to church right now.

In their whole excuse is their church just want more money. Now,

not to mention the fact you ain't never gave them

the money, but like I'm saying, you holding strong on yours,

but you won't even go to church because like they

just want my money. Like, there are a lot of

things that are twisted when it comes about work and providing.

There are a lot of things that are twisted when

it comes to what's the difference between the offering and

time and generosity. It's just and today I want to

clear all of that up. Today, I want to give

somebody for the first time, the ability to see it

how God sees it. And today I know there's some

people in here that have already made your decision. You've

been walking with God for a long time, and you've

already made a decision that this is how I'm going

to stay with God. And you've made a pact. And

today he's calling you into the deep. He's asking you

to come out a little bit deeper. This series is

called Wicked, not just because that movie is out and

everybody want to sing that last little run. That's not

why we did this.

Almost got it.

That was close. If I practice a little more, I

could know. But this series is called Wicked the worship

of Wealth. And when I started to look up what

the word wicked means, do you know one of the

definitions for wicked is twisted. Have you ever seen wicked

furniture before? Wicker furniture, Okay, there we go, thank you.

Y'all had them.

We don't get them no more.

But back in the seventies they had a whole bunch

of wicker furniture and it would be a lot of

stuff twisted together to make something solid. It was twisted. Today,

I wanted to title this sermon, don't get it twisted, why,

pastor Mike, Because if you have a twisted perspective of money,

it complicates, confuses, and constricts the life God intends for

all believers to live. If you have a twisted perspective

of money, it complicates, confuses, and constracts the life that

God intended for you to live. Today. Some of y'all

have to be unbound or unwound when it comes to

the money.

Don't get it twisted.

Given it's not about amounts, it's about obedience. Somebody say,

don't get it twisted because some of y'all are sitting

here like, but I don't got a lot. God said,

I don't need a lot. He's not asking you for

something you don't have. Somebody say, don't get it twisted.

The church doesn't want your money. God wants your heart. Now,

you maybe have had a bad experience in some other church.

But this church, we're a church that during this whole

series gonna be giving to other churches, other nonprofits, other people.

Y'all gotta understand this is not an offering we're about

to take. There is no building fund that's not gonna

get built. There is no there is no feed the children.

There's nothing. Because of the faithfulness and the generosity of

people that have heard this message over the years and

been proactive with it, God has provided for his house.

I'm trying to invite other people into this life because

there's a better life.

Than you've been living.

I feel like somebody who's gone on a trip outside

of the country. How many people have been outside of

the country before, been on a vacation outside of the country.

I'm gonna tell everybody this, just for your expansion. If

you do not have your passport, get it. Oh my gosh,

if you do not have your passport, get it. God

has made a big world that many of us do

not have the faith or the resources to explore yet.

But just by that one act of faith, I believe

there is something that God is going to do for

your mind and your heart. Because some of y'all need

to travel. You need to see more than you've ever

seen passing light. Why are you saying this because I've

been to some places and I've been the one to

come back and tell other people that's a good place

to go. This place has beautiful things here. This is

how I feel on this journey of trusting God with

generosity and stewardship. I've gone on this journey and I'm

coming back to tell Transformation churchs. Hey, y'all, there's some

good things out here. There's a life that you did

not even know where the scripture says it's more blessed

to give than it is to receive. Most of us

have never experienced that. And what I'm telling you is,

this is the level God wants you to live at.

And right now I'm fighting people's generational watch this fear.

I can feel it. Some of us have held on

to mechanisms and welfares and programs and things that you

think are making your life easy. I'm not saying not

to use the assistance that you get, But what if

I told you there was a better way that would

take off the shackles from your life's existence. What if

I told you that God, who owns everything, desires to

make you a dispensary, not a weed, but of resources

or God. What if I told you that he wanted

the people that you're around to be blessed because you're around.

What if I told you that you were supposed to

be a secret agent of answering prayers that God would

allow you to hear things that you don't even got

to say nothing about, and you can walk around and

take care of things on God's behalf. I stopped praying

that God would just answer my prayers, and I started

praying that He would make me an answer to prayers.

That's the only way that happens is if we actually

have faith to believe that God's word is true. And

that's why I don't want you to get it twisted.

You can only help at the level you have. Did

y'all hear what I just said. You can only help

at the level you have. So today I'm asking you

start helping at the level you have. Many of you

have this magic amount, this magic time, this magic job

security point that that's when you're gonna be generous. That's

when you're gonna trust God. If I could just pay

off this car, if I could just pay off this debt,

if I could just that's when I'm gonna start and

I want to say you're a liar. I just want

to be very flank with you right now, because I

make those same promises too. And what happens is God

tells us in his word that how we practice one

thing is how we do everything.

He said.

He said, be faithful over a little, I'll make you

ruler over much. What he's saying is money magnifies who

you are right now? Who are you right now? Are

you generous right now? Are you faithful right now? Because

if God drops a hundred thousand fifty, that should drop it. Lord,

I heard you. I like that faith, Mama Chloe. If

God drops a hundred thousand, ten thousand, one thousand, one

hundred on you, this is what money does. It many

times gives you amnesia. Y'all gonna leave me up here.

I'm myself when it comes in. Somehow I know I'm

supposed to do something. I know, but then boots but

that vacation. But I deserve a break. I need to go.

So instead of waiting for an appointed time, I have

to practice, watch the principles. And so today I want

to bring you to Proverbs eleven, verse twenty four that

says the world of the generous. I'm gonna read it

out of the message version because it feels real good.

The world of the generous gets larger and larger, somebody say.

I will be generous.

Come on, by faith, I will be generous. One more

time to break generational pattern. Somebody say, I will be generous,

and some of y'all it's so hard because it's from

the family you came from. They weren't generous with juice,

or y'all know, some of y'all stingy juice people. Ah,

one glass, one glass, and y'all know what I'm talking about.

And now you done found yourself. You live in a

whole different tax bracket than your family, and you do

the same thing to your kids. How many cups elimonade

is that? I just want you to evaluate where did

that come from? If you can't be generous with juice?

And you can fill in the blank for whatever your

thing is. I want your.

World to expand.

The world of the generous gets larger and larger, but

the world of the stingy, the juice jackers get smaller, smaller,

because the one who blesses others is abundantly blessed. You

want to live a blessed life. Be the biggest blesser

you know. You want your world to expand. Look around

and see what you can give to somebody right now.

You want your world to be exploding. Go find somebody

who's where you used to be and give them what

you wish somebody would have gave you.

God, don't hear me.

The world of the generous gets harder. But you can't

be neutral in this. If you stingy, it constrains you.

And so that's why I found out in my journey

write this down, generosity is all about the heart. Money's

just a neutral tool that gets directed by the heart

and the hand of the person who holds it. So

you give me money, it's gonna do something different than

if you give my daughter Ava money. Not because she's

a bad person, but where her heart is right now

is on squishies. And I don't know if any of

the parents know what squishies are, but they're pointless little

things that have some type of gelatinous material on the inside,

and they cost twenty somethings dollars in different colors. So

when Ava gets money, her heart says squishies, so her

hand goes into her pocket. She has started a whole business.

She's selling breaces. She got Charles, she got Jay, she

got Vicceed, she got her Grandpa. Today, I'm not playing

for a week and a half. She's been making bracelets

at the house so she could come to the place

where she knows there's a captive audience. She a businesswoman, y'all,

and she is selling them from five dollars to twelve dollars.

Got my cash out. She has already made fifty dollars

this morning. Asked if she could come early with me

to church as soon as she sees people. Hello, would

you like to buy a bracelet in a ziplock back eyebought?

But what I'm telling you is when she gets the money,

her heart and her hand are focus on squitches. Now

it's squishyes for Ava, but it might be a mortgage

for you. It's squishyes for Ava, but it might be

shoes for you. Okay, let me just read the scripture.

Matthew nine, Matthew six nineteen. Hey, y'all, this is Jesus talking.

Don't store up for yourselves all your treasures here on earth,

where MAVs and Burman destroyed, and where thieves can break

in and still it. But what I want you to

do instead, this is Jesus talking, store up for yourselves,

hold on treasures in heaven. Hold on, I can make

an investment here on earth that shows back up in heaven.

I can make an investment today that is eternal. Tell

me more, store up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where

mals and burman do not destroy it, and where thieves

do not break in. And still here we go. For

where your treasure is, there, your heart will be also.

I got this scripture twisted for years, and I thought

it said where your heart is, your treasure will be.

It's reversed.

Wherever you buy faith, put your treasure, your heart follows it.

Put your treasure in your home. Your heart is making

sure nobody gets scuffed on the floor. Take your shoes off.

Take your shoes off. Take your shoes off, because you can't.

Y'all got people can't even sit on their own couches.

Plastic on couch. Y'all know what I'm talking about. You

go to your granny's house. Ah, tables, you can't eat at, silverware,

you can't use Ah, that's the fine china. Wait, that's

a fork. But wherever you put your treasure, your heart

pops out. Twenty two. This is where it's telling you

to focus. This is Jesus talking. He said, the eye

is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,

your whole body will be full of light. He's saying

that if the person who is handling whatever it is

has light on the inside of them, everything is gonna

be light about that thing. That's why when people like

money is bad, money is bad. No no, no, no no

no no no, no no no. The love of money

is the root of all evil. But money, he said,

if you pure in your intentions, you got light in

your heart. You want to be generous, you want to

do the right thing with it. He said, When I

give you money, that thing works for the kingdom. But

if you're focus, I'm trying to give you all the principles.

Here you go. But if your eye is watch this

and I love that. They say, unhealthy, if your perspective

is unhealthy, if you were raised my parents who did

money in an unhealthy way. If you got in a

hard time and you develop some habits that are kind

of sisty but not quite illegal, that's unclaiming people on

your taxes who don't live in your house. That's a lie. No,

I just but if your eyes are unhealthy, watch this.

Your whole body will be full of darkness. And if

then the light within you is darkness, how great is

that darkness? Verse twenty four. Watch this, no one can

serve to do y'all see how chronologically important it is

for Jesus talks about all of this. He says, don't

put your treasures in just the stuff you see around here.

He said, your treasure is the place that is going

to locate your heart. And don't make sure that. Make

sure that your eyes are not in darkness, they're in light.

And then it says, because no one can serve two masters.

Either you will hate the one and love the other,

or you will be devoted to the one and despise

the other. Listen, you cannot serve both God and money.

Jesus makes this so clear that I have to make

it even clearer to you because most of us get

this twisted. And I want to just acknowledge one more

time that church, many times, has done a horrible job

at painting this picture. Watch this without a request attached

to it, so it feels like manipulation. It's like, you're

gonna tell me all these things I need to do,

and now I need you to take from what you

do not have, and I need you to give it.

And what that leaves people feeling is used.

And I want to apologize for any leader that has

stood in the platform that has been raised and use

money as a tool to manipulate that is wicked. Today,

I want to take the power out of that problem,

and I want to put our focus on the actual

principle because the enemy wants to twist it. That's what

he's done from the beginning. He takes the truth and

he twisted just a little bit so you can get distracted.

And so when it comes to money, most people have

taken the little truth that they have, Like I know

I should be doing something with money, but I don't

like the way they do it. And as long as

it's twisted, he can keep you in a place that

is either full of greed or full of poverty. And

today I feel a passion and a burden to help

move you and progress you forward and trust in God

on the principles that he's called you to. Somebody shot

at me, a man, Okay, so here we go. The

first thing I want to change about money is your mindset.

Money always starts in the mindset. So that's why we

have to talk about your heart.

When you think about somebody.

Being wicked with money, okay, when you think about somebody

who's greedy or rich or something that's not positive. What

are some of the images of the people that come

to your mind When I thought about it, this goes

to my childhood. I thought of this picture right here,

of this cartoon character. Can you put it on the

screen for me real quick.

He was a duck.

That had a lot of money, and there was a

part of me that loved him swimming in the coins,

the diving board into the coins. This is Screws McDuck.

I loved that. But there was something about him that

seemed very wicked. It seemed like he ain't never shared

with nobody, had them nephews that were orphans, and it

seemed like they was always begging. It just felt not good.

And then I thought of this guy right here, Bernie Madeoff.

Now many of you may not know who he is,

but this guy right here is responsible for the biggest

Ponzi scheme in US history. When we looked him up,

it said he is responsible for the disappearance of almost

sixty five billion dollars. People lost their retirements, their homes,

their investments, and obviously he made it disappear. He's like

watch this magic trick. It's like gone Okay, that's what

I thought was wicked. But do you know when I

started to search my heart and started to ask myself,

what have I classified wicked? I came up with a

very vulnerable answer that I want to submit to you today.

Many times, wicked.

Is people who have just a little more than them.

We think people are wicked if they have just a

little more than we have. Why they spend their money

on that? How they get that they done gone on

two vacations this year. I'm exposing just little foxes that

you don't even think about, but they've started to take

root in your heart. Many times we start to classify

people who we don't even know by little things that

we do know. And today the Holy Spirit said, Michael,

I'm gonna define what's wicked. And today I'm gonna give

you two things, and then we're gonna move on. So

you're ready for next week the end of Matthew six

twenty four. What does Jesus call wicked? Just write that down?

What does Jesus call wicked? Y'all, don't miss this. No

one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the

one and love the other, or you will be devoted

to the one. And despise the other. Because you cannot

serve both God and money. The first way to be wicked.

Write it down. Worshiping wealth instead of God is wicked.

This is what wicked looks like, us climbing the corporate ladder,

doing everything we can to get a dollar, giving up

relationships so that we can get more resources. Walking in watch.

This greed.

And stinginess to make sure that we're the only ones positioned.

God says, if you stand on this mountain.

You're wicked.

Think about it because when you worship wealth, you express

your love to it. Worship is just expressing your love

to something. Some of y'all. God can say something you

won't get up. If that job says something, you're up

at six.

Am, you worship this.

I'm just trying to tell you, like what the real

deal is. God ask you for a little more time.

You say, what's the point if your job ask you

for a little more time?

Over time? He calls this wicked.

Your family needs you to be there for them, and

you would rather replace your presence with presents. I'll buy

you the new Jay's, I'll get you a new PlayStation.

I'll get you and they need affirmation. They need you

to say I'm proud of you. They need you to say, hey,

I'm here, no matter if you fall, no matter if

you fail, but I'm giving you the life I never had.

Do you know you're ungrateful. When I was a child,

I wouldn't da da da da dah. And they said,

but you still needed the same things I need. I

needed to be seen and heard and loved. And God says,

when I trusted you with a child, but you put

the career before the child, I call it wicked.

Y'all.

This is not about just a bunch of money, and

you mean this is about worshiping something that was meant

to be a tool. This is like going to the

hammer that will build the house and praising the hammer

instead of being in awe of that house. The hammer bills,

and God says, the whole system have made us turn

into people who God never intended for his children to be.

Because we want to be on this mountain with a

bunch of wealth. But this is not the only mountain.

I just want to make sure everybody knows we almost done.

But I just need you to hear this revelation. This

ain't the only mountain, because there's half of us that

are on this mountain, And if you're honest, all the

stuff on your Instagram feed, you're trying to figure out

how to get a Lamborghini, rent a Lamborghini, start some

type of business, be able to scale it ten exit,

ten exit, ten exit you're trying to do. And I'm

not mad at any of that, but is it tainting

your heart in the process? And today, I'm believing that

some people who are on this mountain are going to

take us stat down and you're gonna say, you know what,

maybe this is not the right place for me to

build my life. I'm not saying it ain't nothing wrong

with money. I want you to have lots of it.

I want you to be able to help people. I

want you to be able to take care of all

your needs. I want you to live debt free. Do

y'all hear what I'm saying to you right now? How

many people want to live debt free? The Bible says

to oh, no man anything except to love them. How

many people want that to actually happen in your life?

Y'all don't even want it, that's crazy. But worshiping wealth

instead of God is what with saying? With me? It's

what So, if there's any place in your life that

resources have more say so than God, you might be

living a wicked life.

Twisted.

And today I believe about the Holy Spirit, you can

be untwisted. Okay, Matthew, Chapter twenty five, verse nineteen. Ooh,

I love the Bible because this is a story about

that most people know, but they missed the context of

what Jesus is saying here. Because the person who loves

money and worship it, they're twisted, they're wicked. But there's

another person that I think y'all skip out on right here, Matthew,

twenty five nineteen. A master goes away, and he entrusts

these guys with his resources, one with five, one with two,

one with one.

Verse nineteen.

It says, after a long time, their master returned from

his trip and called them to give an account of

watch this, of how they used his money. Whose money

was it? Because the master gave it to him, they use.

His money Verse twenty. The servant to whom.

He had intrusted I like that word. He trusted him

with something. He trusts us with something, he trusts us

with resource. He entrusted them five bags of silver. He

came forward, and he have five more bags. He doubled it. Master,

you gave me five bags of silver to invest, and

I earned five more. The Master was full of praise

and said, what to words. Now everybody talks about the

well done being only in heaven. When I get to

the pearly dates, all I want to hear God say

is well done.

Well.

Let me tell you.

He'll say it down here.

He'll give you a well done before heaven if you

follow his principles about finances. I'm trying to get a

well done this month. I'm trying to get a well

done this week. I'm trying not to wait to Heaven

to get a well done. I want a well done, right, okay,

he said. The Master was full of praise. Boy you

did it. Boy, God, boy, you did it. They're like

your daddy. Well done, my good and faithful servant. You

have been faithful in handling this large amount. Now, the

one with five had the most. He gave one, five,

he gave one, two, he gave one one. But he

called the one he gave the most to a small amount.

Could it be that what God has trusted you with

so far was just the tester of what he actually

wants to do in your life the most you've ever had.

He still calls it a small amount. That makes me

happy because in my best cheers, when God was blessing

from the left to right, the east and the west,

I hear him still saying that was just a smaller amount. Okay,

he said, you've been faithful with a small amount. So

now there is a reciprocating action. There's a chain reaction.

When you're faithful with a small amount, I will give

you many more responsibilities. I like that, and I could

preach a whole other message about it. Is because when

you handle money right, he don't just give you money.

When you handle money right, he gives you responsibilities. And

when he gives you responsibilities, responsibilities attached to resources. So

this is why when people are scared of work and

scared of actually doing what God tell them to do,

you're not ready for money, because when God gives you responsibilities,

he's asking you to work something else. There is no

indication in the scripture of what that man did to

get five more God. He could have been selling bracelets

like ava. He could have started a coffee making business.

He could have We don't know what he did. All

we know is he gave him one responsibility and he

flipped it and came back with five more. He said,

because you were faithful over this, I'm gonna give you

more responsibilities, which equal more opportunities for resource. I could

teach you a whole other thing about that.

Okay, here we go.

And what Jesus says after he said, let's celebrate because

you did what I ask you to do. The servant

with two he came back with two more bags of silver. Master,

you gave me two bags of silver to invest, and

I have earned two more. The masters said, what well done,

my good.

And faithful servant.

You have been faithful in handling this small amount, So

now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let's celebrate together.

Do y'all see the pattern? When God gives you something,

he wants you to at least double it. When he

gave the one five, he came back with five more.

He doubled it. When he gave the one two, he

gave him two more. When he gives you an idea,

double it. When he gives you resource, double it. When

he gives you a relationships, double it. Make that relationship

turn into another thing that like somebody say double it

every time, no matter where you start. If you just

double it, he says, well done. Think about the areas

in your life where you maintained and you were supposed

to double. I'm not just talking about money now. Some

of you. God has given you ideas that you won't

even write down.

Okay.

Then verse twenty four, there was a servant with one

bag of silver, and he came and said, Master, Master, Master,

I know you are a harsh man, harvesting crops you

did not plan, and gathering crops you did not cultivate.

I was afraid I would lose your money, so I

hid what you gave me in the earth. I buried

what you gave me. I did not show what I

could do because I was scared it wouldn't work. Look. Look, look,

here's your money back. Look Look look here's the singing

gift you gave me at six, at the same level

of maturity. Look look look look here's my same acting ability.

Look look look, here's the same He said, I put

gifts in you that you did not earn, and you

hid it because of watch this fear. God has not

given us the spirit of You're not supposed to be

afraid of money. You're not supposed to have fear in

handling money, and that's where the enemy has twisted some

of y'all. Y'all get money and don't even know what

to do with it. It's just like it's like, oh

my god, I got money. I got money money. Other

people get money, and all you do is hide it,

preparing in fear.

For when something goes wrong.

And today I just want to show you what Jesus

thinks about this last way of handling wealth verse twenty six.

But the Master.

Replied, you wicked and lazy servant. God dog, that's not

a well done. If you knew our harvendstick crops. I

didn't plant and gather crops, I didn't cultivate. Why didn't

you just deposit my money in the bank, which means

the bank is not the first place you should be

trying to deposit your money. This is a whole Oh God,

I gotta tell you, I've learned a lot on this journey.

He's saying you that should have you at least should

have done what everybody else do. He said on c

why didn't you deposit my money in the bank? At

least I could have gotten some interest on it. God's saying,

when I give you something, I at least want something

back verse twenty eight. Then he ordered this is really

I really had to work through this because this is

very emphatic direct consequences for being wicked in a way

that is not about greed and a bunch of money.

It's about waste. Can't write this and down to the point,

wasting wealth instead of working it is wicked. So the

worship of wealth is wicked.

But guess what else is wicked? The wasting of wealth?

And I would dare to say that most of us

in here have stood on this hill.

You don't know where your money went? No clue.

God increased you and you steal the same level of broke. No,

come on, y'all, it's happened to me. Got to increase

and pay something turned back in inheritance was left for

you got an extra bonus, same amount of broke. How

in the world do you not know where your shoes

are that you just bought and you brought two pairs

of the same shoes because you thought that you living

in a house and using your money at Starbucks every

day for a picture. And that's seven ninety nine over

one hundred days is eight hundred dollars. So when your

tire pops and you gotta go to the cash pay

day loan place and take out a loan for three

hundred dollars with seven million percent interest, but they tell

you the minimum payments is twenty one dollars a month.

Your children's children children have an inheritance now of debt

because your coffees and one pop tire. I know y'all

don't want to hear it, but more of the things

we pray for at the altar are results of not

wickedness because of more than enough. It's wickedness because of waste.

And if I don't touch on this, the enemy would

love for us to stay twisted and stay in the dark.

You can look like you have money and be wasteful.

If you don't have a budget, you're wasteful because there's

no way you know where your money is if you're

not telling it where to go. Oh my God, don't

come back for the rest of the series and stay broke.

Don't come back for the rest of the series and

stay in a wicked pattern. All I'm trying to tell

you is God says there are two types of people

who are wicked, those who worship money, and those who

stay in the worship of wealth, and those who waste it.

And I just want to know are you in either

one of these categories, because if you are today, what

I'm asking you is take some steps of humility. See

that position is high because when you get in that position,

it's a position of pride.

If you are.

Wicked because you wasteful, you are prideful because you think

more is coming. You have developed an entitlement mentality that

God is gonna provide for me and gonna do more

for me, and gon do this. Let's just go to

the word real quick for those who are wasteful Verse

twenty eight. Then he ordered the master ordered take the

money from this servant and give it to the one

with ten bags of silver.

To those who will use well what they are given.

Somebody say, well, Remember he was saying, well done, well

done for those who use well. Steward actually have some

type of principles around it. For those who use well

what they are given, even more will be given to

them and they will have. Oh. I love this word

an abundance. Do you know that it's God's desire for you?

I don't care where you are economically right now, how

many people you owe, how much you're in an overdraft.

It is God's desire for you, his child to live

in abundance. What does it look like for a king's

kid to be struggling with basic necessities? Oh? God, if

my children as blessed as God has made us, we're

begging to eat, that wouldn't be a reflection on them.

Because if they walked into this church, everybody would feed him.

If Ava came here crusty around the mouth asking for

some McDonald's, I know somebody would get her some.

But after a while, y'all would start asking.

Why he wearing that jacket and why do he have

why does he look like that? And they live like this?

Could it be that God from heaven is saying, y'all,

could y'all please do it how I intended for y'all

to do it, Cause y'all making me look bad. The

world has it twisted. They think I'm a big God

that just wants something from them because y'all won't obey me,

y'all won't put me first, y'all won't tie y'all won't

trust me. You won't do it how I said to

do it. And so the struggles, the consequences of your

disobedience got them thinking that I'm a bad God.

And you just a disobedient child.

We all look bad when you won't obey.

That's what Mike. Why are you saying this?

Because I think all of us have an opportunity to

change this narrative.

Here we go.

The best way to handle wealth is with God's wisdom.

So I'm just asking everybody today to buy faith. Put

yourself in this position. If you're up here and you

worship wealth, and you grinding, and you hustling, no days off,

make that money rise and grind rise and grind. Y'all

know all the sayings that we be saying, like some

thing's gotta be done, and we wi't sacrifice. We're gonna

make sure if you're on this pride comes before a fall.

And what I'm telling everybody is, I know really wealthy

people who still don't have peace. I know really wealthy

people that would give anything to actually be able to

sleep at night without having to take some type of medicine.

So if you're in this room, listen to me, and

you're at a place where you've been worshiping wealth. Today

we're stepping down. And in the same way, there's some

people over here that your playing after church was go

to waste the resources that God gave you.

Come on, I'm just gonna tell it.

Do you know how much a box of Krispy Kream's

donuts he is right now? I found out the other

day and almost had a conniftion. It's twenty four dollars

for twelve glaze plane Krispy Kream don that's sugar and

air twenty And I can't yeah, and I can't tell

you how many times I frivolously have promised my kids

donuts as a reward. I'm not saying they ain't never

gonna get donuts again, because I'm not trying to get

up here and play you. What I am saying is

I'm taking account of every one of them donuts now.

And hear what I'm saying because I would because it

was out of my mind and out of my sight

and it was just a swipe I was wasting. And

God's telling some of us it's time to take an account,

and you're gonna have to step off and watch this.

You're gonna have to get in a humble position, which

is in the middle, not the worship of wealth, not

the waste of wealth, the wisdom with wealth. This is

where I believe by the end of this series everybody

will be. If you hear what I'm saying, you will

be walking in wisdom with wealth. So all you have

to do is pray and identify are you dealing with

a heart that can be humble enough to get to

this place. For years, my heart was not humble enough.

I had to have money. I had to have it,

even if it wasn't right, it wasn't legitimate. And then

when I got some, I wasted it. I can't tell

you for how many years. It wasn't until my taxes

came that I was like, I had that much money

this year, Oh my goodness, and I'm the same level

of broke kystin Mike, Why are you saying this because

this year I'm believing by faith that every person that

will take this journey with me, they're going to walk

in wisdom. How do I check my heart? Two things?

Write them down, and this is going to be in

your prayer time this week. You need to ask yourself

and ask God, do I have.

A generous heart.

Now? I'm not talking about the like, oh, well, I

give this little kid my last lollipop. I'm not talking

about that. I'm talking about for real, like if God

ask you to be generous to honor him, to not

do it sometimes to be consistent with it?

Do you actually have a generous heart?

Deuteronomy fifteen, verse seven, it says, if there is among

you a poor man of the brethren, within any of

the gates in your land, which the Lord God has

given you, who gave it to you the Lord, the Lord.

Your God, has given it to you.

You shall not watch this, harden your heart, nor shut

your hand.

So your heart in your hand is connected. You shall not.

Harden your heart nor shut your hand from the poor brother.

But you shall open your hand wide to him, and

willingly lend him sufficiently for his need, whatever he needs. Beware,

lets there be a wicked thought in your heart. Beware

that you don't get a twisted thought in your heart,

saying the seventh year of the year of release is

at hand, and your eye be evil against your poor brother,

and you give him nothing, and he cry out to

the Lord against you, and it becomes sinned among you.

Let me explain this to you.

In the Old Testament, every seven years they released all debts.

Would anybody like that to actually come back to Okay? Amen?

So every seven years they released all debts. And what

this is saying is if your brother comes to you

right before the seventh year and says, can I borrow something?

He said, don't be like no, because they ain't gonna

pay me back. And if they don't pay me back,

in six months, the debt is released.

I ain't doing that.

Y'all know how we do. They said, don't do that

because if you do that, it's wicked.

He said.

In that wickedness, watch this can turn into sin. You're

twisted thought, He said, I want you to be generous.

And my question to you is are you really generous?

If God told you to give it and you're not

getting it back, would you do it? No, hear what

I just said. If God told you to give it

and he told you you're not getting it back, would

you do it? If God told you to give it

and you need to release the debt right now, would

you do it? Some of all. I got my own family,

and God said, I'm trying to provide for him. He said,

but I need a heart whose hand.

It's connected?

So the first question is do I have a generous heart?

Second question is watch this, do I have a grieving heart? See?

Because the thing that comes to attack you after you

give is grief. Have you ever given something to somebody

and then went back and be like, dang, I could

have shoot. I look good on them, but they looked

better on me. Come on, let's be honest. You ever

given somebody some money and was like, oh, what the

enemy tries to do is get you to stop giving,

to twist to make giving wicked right, because you you

may feel some grief. I was thinking about it after church.

My daughters and my son came to church with me

today and I got to take them all to eat.

I told him I was gonna take them to, you know,

all of the little places with the kids stuff. And

I just realized, I don't got no money. I don't

got my wallet, I don't got I don't have anything.

To Charles what you're doing?

Hey, Charles, have you got something from me?

Oh?

How much you got? Three? One two? Three? I do?

I got kids? Thank you? Now? Charles is so sweet.

Now let me tell you about that example. Charles is

not grieving right, now because before service I gave him

this three hundred dollars. There is no grief in his

heart because I told him, Hey, I'm gonna say I

don't got no money. And when I say I don't

got no money, come give me this money back. He's

smiling right now because he knows where the money came from.

There was no moment in the whole time he was

holding the money.

That he took ownership of it.

He was just the manager of it. So when I

called for it back, he wasn't like, oh God, this

is the money. No, no, no, because I gave it to

him in the first place. The problem with many of

us and why we grieve when it comes to our finances,

is because somehow in the mixt you thought this was

your money. My Bible said, it is he that gives

us the ability to produce wealth. The earth is the

lord and the fullness thereof He is the one that

everything comes from. But somehow we got it twisted. And

so the whole reason that I needed Charles to give

me this money is not because I had money, is

because at this moment I needed to bless somebody. Come here, sweetheart,

I saw your hand over there yeah, come here, Yeah, yeah,

come here, Come on, come with urgency, come like somebody

giving you something. Come on. What's your name? Da Vita?

David with a da vida? This is for you. The

only thing I ask is that out of that you

ask the Holy Spirit who you're supposed to bless. I'm

not telling you what amount. I'm not telling you. It

can be ten, it can be twenty, it can be

whatever you want. But all I'm is when God blesses you,

it is a part of our responsibility to bless somebody else.

Can we give God praise? Right there? Amen? I love you.

That's it.

Where are you at?

Has money, finances, generosity and wealth been twisted? And I

know people who have served in pastor churches for decades

and they still are twisted and wicked when it comes

to this thing called wealth. Everybody's standing all over this place.

Hey listen, we're about to leave in a moment, but

I need you to hear me real quick. This series

is going to be paramount to changing your relationship with resources.

I'm gonna tell you something that I've I'm gonna just

tell you because y'all my church and I want to

lift this journey out real in front of y'all. The

Holy Spirit reminded me before this series some places that

he blessed me and I wasn't being intentional in returning

the tithe to him, and it was not malicious. It

was just like, oh God, you did bless me with that.

Oh you did bless me about like and I have

my tithes already set up on reoccurring like so literally,

when I know how much I make, I go to

Transformation Church dot Org because I don't want to think

about it. I don't want to get the devil no

opportunity to distract me. So as soon as my check

hit boo, I'm honoring God. Somebody say, first, I'm gonna

talk about that next week. But but I realized watch

this that God had increased me more than I was

being intentional, and I got convicted because I was like, well, God,

I don't I don't ever want you to think and

he just put it in my prayer time before this series,

he pointed out to me, he said, you never honored

me with how I blessed you right there. You never

honored me with how I blessed you right there, And

I was like, do you know if I got it,

you got it, he said.

But I don't got it.

And before this series, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me.

He said, I need you to do something you've never

done before. And I said, Holy Spirit, trail lightly, y'all know,

y'all know, he said, I need you to do something

you never done before. I need you to trust me

with a month of your income. I went cross sided

and got weak at the knees.

Because I've never I've never done I never.

I'm just there's levels to this, so y'all, I'm just

trying to be honest. Say I need you to trust

me with the month of your income. I said, Lord,

do you know what I have to do in a month?

You understand all of it, he said, I know, he said,

but I blessed you in ways that you could never

even pray for. And I just need to know that

you're gonna walk in wisdom. And at the moment he

said I walk in wisdom, the enemy attacked my mind

and said, this ain't wisdom. Oh, can I be honest,

that's not wisdom. You got a family, you got bills,

you got thiser. And the Holy Spirit said to me,

he said, write the check and see what I do.

Moe as my witness. Before this service, I said.

All right, God, if y'all see me on Highway seventy

five for my I'm just playing. I just believe God's word.

And I'm telling you this because I will never preach

to you somewhere that God's not actually actively leading me

to that next place. And today, the reason I'm telling

you this is not an amount. It's obedient. And this

is making sure for me that I don't get on

this place where I'm worshiping wealth and I don't get

in this place where I'm wasting it no more.

I want to be led.

And guided by the wisdom of God. Today, I want

to pray for you that as God speaks to you,

that you would just obey. There's no offering, there's no offering,

there's nothing. But if God sells you to do something,

you better obey. The next few weeks, I'm gonna give

you understanding. I'm gonna give you scripture, I'm gonna give

you examples, I'm gonna give you it's gonna be such

a good series the next three weeks. It's gonna be good.

You don't want to miss one of them. It's gonna

keep unlocking revelations. But what I'm saying today is God

doesn't want you to live wicked anymore. And today the

only way we untwist this thing is by surrendering. If

you've been in one of these two categories, you need

to identify. I'm not asking you to come up. I

don't want you to open up your bank account. I

don't want you to do it.

I don't want you to care about anybody else.

But if you know that you've been walking in a

level of wickedness, either by worshiping wealth, doing too much

for it, or wasting it, would you just do me

a favor and lift your hands. I want to pray

for you. Yeah, here we go. If you're at home

right now, I want to pray for you Father in

the name of Jesus. Today, God, I'm asking you to

be your Jovah Jyra, our provider that's not just the

provider of resources, that's also the provider of wisdom. And

so today, God, for every person under the sound of

my voice, today we are collectively coming and saying we repent,

We are turning, We are walking down the steps to

a place of humility, to say, God, We're going to

take our place in the middle of both of these

things that culture tries to build up. Today we take

the humble position and say, God, give us wisdom. We

may have lived years, made tons of money, not had enough,

had more than enough. But today God, we're making a

fresh commitment that we would live in wisdom when it

comes to wealth and Father, we're praying that as we

obey what you speak and we learn your principles, that

our world would get larger in law, so that we

can be an extension of Your kingdom. Father God, I

thank you that those who have come from broken backgrounds,

today you are breaking generational patterns over their life. For

those Father God, who have seen greed and seen Father

God misuse, or Father God, have seen people use money

to get identity, today I thank you that our identity

is found only in You, Holy Spirit. We need to

be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So today

we look to you and I thank you Father that

from this moment on, there will be revelation after revelation

after revelation after revelation, Father God, of how we are

supposed to use our hands to produce wealth, and how

we are supposed to have your heart.

So that we can help those. Indeed, I declare by faith.

That as we step out, Father God, and we are

faithful over a little I thank you for supernaturally God,

increasing your people into abundance like never before. God, by faith,

I thank you that our wisdom grows so our wealth grows.

I thank you that it will be first practical and spiritual,

and then natural. And I thank you. By this time

next year, there will be testimonies all over the world

of people who have trusted you with what you've placed

in their hands. And I pray that this message gets

into young people. God. I thank you, Father for those

who are young, Father God would never have to relearn

something because they learned it the right way. Father God,

I thank you for young millionaires and people to be

able to manage wealth and understand wisdom from a young age.

Father God, give us the ability, Father God, to stay

focused on you, because we want a well done.

Today.

We honor you and we declare we will be wise

with wealth.

Jesus name.

Even in this moment, in this atmosphere, I feel the

presence of God. For God's soul loved the world that

he the principle we're talking about of generosity. Is the

only reason we can be saved is that God invested Jesus.

Just think about it. Jesus was the tithe for the

rest of his children. Just think about it. He gave

the first so that the rest of us could be redeemed. Oh, today,

if you've never accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord

and savior, what you're doing is you're missing out on

the greatest return on investment.

Because there was a man that died in bled.

So that you could walk in freedom and have eternal life.

And today, if you've been steeped in depression and lost

and feeling far from God and leaning on things that

aren't dependable, today, I want to give you the opportunity

to meet Jesus, the one who became sin. He became pornography,

he became us, He became all of the things that

we deal with. He became it and died the most

gruesome death so that you and me could live. If

we just watch this one word believe like he's all

he's saying is like, believe that I did this, and

you will be saved according to Romans ten nine and

so today, whether you are in this room or you're

watching online right now. I believe that today is your

day of salvation. We've been praying for you. There are

people I need the church to start praying right now.

There are people that have been praying for you. Your

whole life has lined up to this moment right now.

God really wants something for you, and this takes you

accepting Him as your Lord and savior. Right now, on

the counter of three, I want you to shoot your

hand up in the air. If you want to make

Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savi, you're one. You're

making the greatest decision of your life too. I'm proud

of you. But more than that, your name is about

to be written in the Lambs Book of Life. I

see you, my brother. I see you, my sister. Three.

Shoot your hand up in the air. I see you,

my brother. I see you, my brother. Oh. Come on, y'all, church,

let's praise God. I see you, my sister. Glory to God.

I see you, my brother, and more than me seeing you,

God sees you. Come on. Raise your hand online right now,

Come on, Church, let's celebrate what God is doing. You

can put your hand down because what I want you

to know is that we not gonna judge you because

all of us have been through it. But what we're

gonna do is walk with you and pray for you.

And as a church, nobody prays alone. So could everybody

just pray this prayer, lift your hands and say God,

thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I

believe that you lived, you died, and you rose again

from my salvation. I give you my life, change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen,

Come on church, so let's celebrate all over this place. Hallelujah. Hey, listen,

today's a new day for you, bro, Today's a new

day for you. Brother, Today's a new day. And if

you made that decision, I want you to text saved

to eight two eight two eight two right after church

if you want to hear about our church and you

want to meet me and some of our pastors. We're

gonna be across the hall and we're gonna do this

thing called meet the Pastors in about fifteen twenty minutes.

But before we do that, if you need prayer, I

want our altar workers to come. They'll be here at

the front and in the back and I don't want

you to leave this place without getting agreement. Some of

y'all there are financial things that are heavy on you

right now, and you need agreement. The Bible says we

can pray about anything, and even those who are online

stay on. I'm gonna jump in the back and I'm

gonna pray with you about your prayer request. I just

believe God's doing something important and impactful, and God's gonna

change us into people who live with wisdom. Father, Bless

them is my prayer. Let this week be the best

week we've ever had. God. I thank you that this

week we're walking in wisdom, Father God, and we declare,

Father God, that no lie of the enemy, no twist

of the enemy, will get us distracted, keep us focused

on You. And I thank you that we will live

in big faith and crazy faith. He's a snake, ain't

man until next week, go out and live a transform life.

I love you so much. Who not trusting? Joba?

You are Jo.

We'll be consent. Well these times you are you are you?

I won't we say it again? John, you are.

Jo?

I will be good. Jam jevery circles you job. What

about time usage? AfOR me? I will because what's going

on Transformation Nation. I am so grateful that you are

on here and I want to pray for you. Today's

message was helping us understand that God has a way

that he desires for us to view wealth and he

doesn't want us to get it twisted. And today, if

you found yourself in one of those categories where you've

been one who's been worshiping well or you're one that

has been wasting well, today I just wanted to specifically

pray that you would walk in wisdom. Come on. I

want you to identify in the comments if you've been

wasting well, say I've been wasting it. Come on. If

you've been worshiping it, say I've made it higher than God.

Come on, because when you're honest, it changes the way

that God can move. I say it all the time,

but God doesn't bless who you pretend to be. He

blesses who you really are. And so today I believe

it's the start of God changing us and making us

ones who walk in wisdom when it comes to wealth.

And today I'm praying for everything. So if you have

a prayer request, over fifteen thousand of you are still

on here, and every Sunday, I can I get back

here because I want you to know that this is real,

that our team is picking up these prayer requests right

now and we're gonna agree in prayer. So if you

have a specific prayer request, I want you to put

it in the caption right now on Instagram, on YouTube,

wherever it is, and our team is going to begin

to pray. There are those who need healing right now.

If you need healing, I want you to just join

your faith with mine right now, Father God, in the

name of Jesus, I pray, Father for every partner that

needs healing in their life, healing in their mind, healing

in their body. Father, I thank you for Anita who's

in Arkansas, Father who has gotten a heart failure diagnosis.

I thank you, Father God that the heart, Father God,

was made by God. And I thank you for a

creative miracle in her heart. Father God, I thank you

Father that you were doing a work that the doctors

will be confounded by. Father God. I speak specifically, Father

God to her heart and I say work as God

intended for it to work. And for anybody else who

is having any organs that are failing. Holy Spirit, I

thank you for wisdom right now, the right doctors, the

right nurses, the right treatment. Father God, I thank you

that you will do in their lives what no man

can do. Father, but you will use man to even

give wisdom. So Father, I also pray for Dion, Father God,

as she is crying out for her son's mental health

and physical human I pray for any person Father, that

is having any issue with mental health. Father God, I

thank you that we have the mind of Christ in

the name of Jesus, that our mind is sound, Father God,

that you will give us wisdom, Father God of doctors, prescriptions,

whatever we need, Father God, to get to baseline and

be able to actually heal from the inside out. I declare,

and I believe that mental health illness is a name,

but your name is higher God. So today, come on,

I want you to receive this right now by faith.

I thank you Father, that peace and anxiety is actually

being eradicated by the peace of God. We pray for

Melissa in New Jersey right now, whose daughter needs freedom

from shame. Father God. So many of us need freedom

from shame. Even Father hearing this message today, God, where

we would be shame a shame, Father God, that we've

wasted so much or a shame, Father, God, that we

worship wealth the way we have today. I thank you

that any man that be in Christ, he is a

new creation. The old has passed away, and behold the

newest come. So we don't have to walk in shame,

Father God, we walk in grace. We walk in mercy.

It's new every morning and today I pray for every

person that needs provision right now. Father, as we're starting

this series on finances and generosity and wealth. The enemy

would many times shot to distract with the cares of

this world and bring us, Father God, our focus off

of you, because we are distracted by the provision we need.

But today we call on Jehovah Jirah, who is our provider.

And so we pray for Stella, Father, who is believing

for her home to sail. God, I thank you that

you have the right buyers for that house. Come on,

drop your prayer request in the comments, because right now

we are praying and believing God with you. I feel

the presence of God. I thank you Father that anything

that needs to sail, Father, in these partners' lives will sail,

and Father, it will sail above market value. Give a

bidding will for it. Father God, I thank you that

you will bless them and allow Father God that their

next season to be empowered, Father God, by a blessing

from this one God. We're praying for Father, for every

person who's needing help with their children. Father, not just

financial provision, but Father God, human resource, the right people,

the trusted people, even my sister who needs a babysitter

for a child so she can work and do the

different things she needs to do. God, I thank you

that you're surrounding people with right communities and the right people,

Father God, that they will be protected, Father God, that

they will be loved, Father God. And I thank you

Father for every person that needs a job, Father, that

have been putting in job offers everywhere. Father God, I

thank you that the denials are redirections in the name

of Jesus, and you're leading them to the right place.

Father God. So I pray for every person that needed

a job, Father God, I pray for every person Father

God that is believing for you to definely bring them

into the right situation. God, in the name of Jesus,

I thank you that you are provide. You are the

one Father that puts us into places that we need. Jyrah,

You are enough. Today we pray for every person Father

that's dealing with relationship pains, relationship issues. Father, God, I

thank you for Malia who is believing for the end

of division in her family. Father, that she's not the

only one that there's something that's an offense or a

division that has been breaking up unity. Today, Father, I

thank you for for courageous conversations filled with your spirit.

I thank you for counseling. God. I thank you for community. Father.

I thank you for wisdom and emotional intelligence to be

able to use the tools that you've given Father on

this earth, to be able to have conversations that lead

to change and transformation. And Father, thank you for protection

of people's hearts. Father, even boundaries that need to be set. God,

I think that you are a Godfather that understands the

inner workings of people and knows, Father, if they desire

to change or not give us wisdom. Let us be laid. Father,

your word said that if we would acknowledge you in

every way, you would literally direct our path. So God,

we pray from Maletey in Colorado, thank you for delivering

her family. Father from drugs and abuse and violence. Father God,

Today she's not the only one that's believing for that. Today, Father,

from prescription peals all the way to hard drugs. Father God,

thank you God that you are delivering us from substances

that are trying to literally give us a counterfeit for peace,

a counterfeit for joy. Today, Father, I thank you that

you will be enough. God. Even as we pray, Father,

we pray for Christie and Kenneth who are celebrating God

or in watching together. Father God, what their union and

what's happening in their life. God, I thank you God

that you would bless them, Bless everybody who's listening today. God,

I thank you that you are bringing us into wisdom. God,

I thank you that we won't be people who will

be wicked, but we will get a well done. Bless

these people's hearts to be able to be ready to

do what you tell them to do with their hand.

And today God, we call you chy or you're more

than enough, have your way. In Jesus' name, we praise. Somebody.

Shout a man come on at your house, Say a

man out loud, put it in a chat. I love

you so much. Today is the start of what I

believe is gonna be a revolution with wealth that God's

bringing you, mark my words, into another level of trust

and responsibility because you're gonna be faithful over a little

I'm just believing. I can't wait to hear the testimonies

of how God blesses your business, how He blesses your home,

how He blesses your investments, how He starts your investments.

Why are you saying this, Pastor Mike, Because God desires

for you to be a help. But you only can

help with what you have, and God is gonna bless

us with more so we can help more people today.

I love you, I believe you. I hope you felt

the heart of what I was speaking, and I just

want to challenge you. Some of you are hearing the

Lord speak and some of you just got paid. Some

of you have resource that you haven't honored God with.

I'm gonna really explain it next week. I'm gonna talk

about the tide and I'm gonna talk about how to

do it. But some of you feel what I felt

is the conviction of the Holy Spirit that you know

what I need to go ahead and take ten percent

of this and I need to return it to God.

I don't need to give it because you can't give

what's already his. But I need to return it. And

so I'm just encouraging you. I feel led to do it.

I was gonna wait till next week, but I'm just

encouraging some of you know that you need to get

on the app right now. You need to put God first.

You need to give. If you don't go to Transformation Church,

that's good. I want you to give to the church

that you go to. I just believe that the principle

works because we work it and God is gonna do

something so special. I love you so much. Hey, listen,

the King is alive. The song that they sang today

is out. Now, go stream it, go listen to it,

make a video worshiping to it. Let us see it.

And if you want to go on any of our

mission trips this summer to Los Angeles or Tanzan. The

applications closed today, So text outreach to eight two eight

two eight two. You would love to be a part

of what that looks like. Y'all know Easter is coming up.

I know a lot of y'all are gonna want to

travel to come for ransom. Make it a weekend if

you can. I'm telling you this year's production is gonna

be epic and we're gonna lift Jesus up. People are

gonna get saved, people are gonna be healed, people are

gonna get delivered, and we would love to invite you

to come and be a part of it. It's April twentieth.

We're actually doing Ransom on that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,

so you can be a part of it. If you

want to go deeper and God, join us this Wednesday

for prayer, Bible study, sit you starts at six pm.

I just want to let you know I love you Church,

and I believe that the best days of your life

are right in front of you. We're gonna walk in

with them until next week. Go out and live a

transform life. Thank you for joining us today.

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